Block Grant D68HP04162

The U.S. Department of Education awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects (CFDA 84.215) program to the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) in Wilsonville, OR. The grant will fund a Healthcare Career Pathways program over a 2-year period from September 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025. Through a sub-award,...

The Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education awarded a $500,000 project grant to Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp to support the Advocate Health Career Pipeline Program. The 3-year grant, awarded on June 1, 2023, will fund efforts to develop career pathways in the healthcare field and address community risk factors contributing to violence. As a not-for-profit health system, Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp will use the federal funding to construct...

The School Board of Seminole County, FL received a $526,692 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program (CFDA 84.215). The funding will be used to revitalize the Academy of Health Careers at Seminole High School from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to develop and improve literacy skills for students in this high-need local educational agency, supporting a range...

Federal Grant Award Summary Carthage Area Hospital, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) program (CFDA 93.110), effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030. The award supports the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program, which funds the establishment and operation of a new school-based health clinic (SBHC) at Copenhagen Central School in Lewis County, New York....

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $402,028 Project Grant to the MHA Health Research & Educational Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization, to implement the MS EARN pilot program. This program provided paid, three-semester nursing student externships at the South Sunflower County Hospital, a rural Mississippi hospital, over the 2024-25 academic year. The grant aimed to increase nurse staffing, equip staff to...

This federal Project Grant award of $4,100,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.493 - Congressional Directives program) will enable Southern Maine Community College (a sub-awardee of the Maine Community College System) to renovate a floor of its Health Science Building to create a state-of-the-art healthcare simulation center. The simulation center will provide students preparing for careers in healthcare with a realistic, hands-on learning environment to practice...

Samuel Merritt University's College of Nursing received a $1,968,192 Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Professionals, under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) to support the Oakland Nursing Initiative for Community Health (ONICH). The four-year project, effective September 30, 2025 through September 29, 2029, addresses critical nursing...

Dallas College received a $2.45 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Bureau of Health Professionals under the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Grants program (CFDA 93.359) for the Workforce Expansion Program, awarded September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for September 29, 2029. The grant supports the development and implementation of a comprehensive nursing workforce expansion initiative designed to increase diversity...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a $333,331 Project Grant under the CMS Research, Demonstrations and Evaluations program (CFDA 93.779) to the California State University San Marcos Corporation (CSUSM) for the "Community Schools Bridges2Health Research Project". This project aims to develop and evaluate a "Bridges2Health" community health advocate program that will be implemented within two community schools in the Vista Unified School District in...

This $958,187 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) supports a 3-year program at Franklin Pierce University to provide rural healthcare simulation training for physician assistant students. The program will deliver hands-on clinical simulation experiences to prepare these students for careers serving rural and underserved communities. This grant furthers the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary...